multitude
音標(biāo)發(fā)音
- 英式音標(biāo) [?m?l.t?.t?u?d]
- 美式音標(biāo) [?m?lt??tud, -?tjud]
- 國際音標(biāo) ['m?lti,tju:d, -,tu:d]
- 英式發(fā)音
- 美式發(fā)音
基本解釋
- n. 大量,多數(shù);群衆(zhòng),人群
詞源解說
- 14世紀(jì)初期進(jìn)入英語,直接源自拉丁語的multitudinem;最初源自古法語的multitude,意爲(wèi)大量,大群。
詞根記憶
- multi(多) + tude(狀態(tài))→多的狀態(tài)→許多;大量
- multi(許多) + tude(狀態(tài))→多的狀態(tài)→衆(zhòng)多,大量
- multi(多) + t + ude(表狀態(tài),名詞後綴)→多的狀態(tài)→大量,衆(zhòng)多
- multi(多) + tude→多的狀態(tài)→大量
用法辨析
- multitude作“大量,許多”解時(shí),常與of連用,且其後麪常接可數(shù)名詞的複數(shù)形式,其謂語動(dòng)詞既可用單數(shù)形式也可用複數(shù)形式。
- the multitude(s)還可作“大衆(zhòng),民衆(zhòng),群衆(zhòng)”解,有時(shí)用作貶義,作“流氓”解。
n. (名詞)
詞組短語
- cover 〔hide〕 a multitude of sins 是一個(gè)冠冕堂皇的借口,掩蓋許多見不得人的東西
- angry multitude 憤怒的群衆(zhòng)
- vast multitudes of facts 大量的事實(shí)
- amid multitudes 在人群儅中
- in multitudes 成群地
- a multitude of 大批的,衆(zhòng)多的
- multitude e 大批;大量;大群;民衆(zhòng)
- multitude cultural 多元文化
- multitude weekly 群衆(zhòng)
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短語
英英字典
- a large number of people or things
- A multitude of things or people is a very large number of them.
- If you say that something covers or hides a multitude of sins, you mean that it hides something unattractive or does not reveal the true nature of something.
- You can refer to a very large number of people as a multitude.
- You can refer to the great majority of people in a particular country or situation as the multitude or the multitudes.